Church members to help beautify Langham Creek campus

Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Members of the Family of Faith Lutheran Church will head to nearby Langham Creek high school on Sept. 30 after church services to join several school groups in beautifying the campus.

Pastor Mike Ramey hopes about 150 of the church's 200 congregants will take place in the event, from 1-4 p.m., and said members of the school's band, dance team and football team will meet the church goers there.

The group will put down new mulch and new plants in the school's flower beds, paint esplanades and install 16-foot-high stone letters spelling 'LCHS' on the end of the school's retention pond near FM 529.

"We want to make an impact for the sake of the community," Ramey said. "We'd like to challenge the community to take care of itself, and we looked for a center point, something everybody drives by and knows about."

After the event at the school, 17610 FM 529, participants will take part in an ice cream social at the church, 16710 FM 529.

Dale Cowser, the school's assistant principal and building manager, said he was approached two months ago by Ramey with the idea of getting church congregants to help out the school.

"A lot of our kids go to their church and parents of our students go to their church as well," Cowser said.

Guelda Cullen, the church's director of Faith Academy pre-school and head of its children's ministry, said the event, and particularly the big stone letters, are designed to help give Langham Creek a better image.

"We want to help them so we people in the neighborhood and community can go past that and say 'That's pretty neat,'" Cullen said.